Life gets in the way. You start a family. You make a big shift in your career. And all of a sudden,

you've lost touch with those people that are most important to you. And it can be quite daunting

to reach back out and reconnect with them.

All right, welcome back to another social intelligence brief. And today we're tackling a topic

that a lot of our clients in the X Factor Accelerator join the program for. And that's how to

reconnect with those friends that you've lost touch with. Scroll your phone. How many names make you

smile? How many of them are you guilty of losing

touch with? If you put a lot of time into building out your network, well, you certainly don't want to

let all of that work go to waste. Like anything that you build, maintenance is required to keep it up.

These tactics are also great for reestablishing and maintaining building up your network. And here's the thing. We've talked about on the show

numerous times how many hours spent together is required for you to build deep relationships.

It's harder to build new relationships than it is to keep those old relationships

fresh and connected. So today we're going to tackle how we actually do that. And here's the thing.

Light touch actually keeps those doors open. It's not a heavy lift that we're talking about.

In fact, the mere exposure effect, even a quick like, a text around the holidays, refreshes that familiarity

and boost positive feelings in the other person. And we know that relationships decay over time.

In fact, friendships that kept talking, even briefly, avoided the quality slides seen in

silent ties, meaning people that you have not talked to for

months or even years. So keeping and maintaining those relationships is huge, and we're going to

share with you four strategies to do so. Now, here's the reality check. You can only keep about

150 acquaintances in your life, period. And that's the Dunbar number. So let's not

waste effort on filling new people in if you've already built a great network. It's worth

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